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In a recent entry on his blog, Jojo mentions that next year will be Hijokaidan's 30th anniversary, and that he's considering putting together a 30cd set to commemorate - one disk for each year of the group's existence.

hmmm, so that'll be 1 cd covering 1979 through 1990 and 29 of performances from 1991-2009? i'm only half joking, if it's actually a cd of material per year that would be pretty exciting but i can't really imagine that much stuff just sitting around

Jojo has posted a couple of times on it recently on his blog. It seems that he is now going through the tapes to prepare the masters. It seems that there is probably three cds worth of unreleased stuff from the earliest duo line-up of the group with Naoki Zushi. Anyway, he seems excited by it all. He also mentioned that there is going to be a book about the group - not entirely clear whether this will be part of the box or separate.

Another update from Jojo on the Hijokaidan 30th anniversary 30 CD boxset, which now seems to be provisionally titled 「ザ・ノイズ」("The Noise"). He says he is aiming at a release date in May, probably late May. The contents are currently being edited and he expects to have the masters ready this month. 90% of the material will be previously unreleased, including 3 CDs worth of material by the original Jojo/Zushi duo line-up, and one CD of material by the various collaborative ...Kaidan units.

Latest on this is that a release date of June 16 has now been set, that Alchemy are now taking reservations and that there is a discounted price for those who reserve now (45,000 yen as opposed to 52,500 yen). Which is a reasonable enough price for 30 cds.As previously announced, the set will be limited to 500 copies.

There is no info posted in English yet, or anything about overseas postal charges. But the reservation email address is: ams@yd5.so-net.ne.jp

Does the cheaper price last until the release date? I can't afford it right now (can anybody?) but i'll try and place a reservation anyway (assuming reservation is not the same as a pre-order in this case?)